egghead Slack Intelligence

Joel's private intelligence layer over the egghead.io Slack workspace. Joel-only — never participates in channels, never replies to anyone but Joel, never surfaces private data publicly.

Tokens

Three tokens in agent-secrets (values unchanged across scope updates):

Secret	Type	Purpose
`slack_bot_token`	`xoxb-*`	Bot: Socket Mode, send DMs to Joel, reactions
`slack_app_token`	`xapp-*`	Socket Mode WebSocket connection
`slack_user_token`	`xoxp-*`	User: read all channels, DMs, files, search

User Token Scopes (current)

admin, identify, channels:history, channels:read, groups:history, groups:read, im:history, im:read, mpim:history, users:read, users:read.email, chat:write, canvases:read, canvases:write, files:read, search:read, search:read.public, search:read.private, search:read.mpim, search:read.im, search:read.files, search:read.users

Bot Token Scopes

files:read, files:write, remote_files:read, remote_files:share, remote_files:write, search:read.files, users.profile:read, chat:write, channels:history, channels:read, groups:history, groups:read, im:history, im:read, mpim:history, reactions:write, app_mentions:read, connections:write

Workspace IDs

All Slack IDs stored here (private skill, NOT in any git repo):

Workspace: egghead.io (T030CS0QL)
Joel user: U030BJ3CK
Bot user: U0AGRUMQXPF (joelclaw bot)
Joel DM channel: D0AHPM2NPJL

VIP DM Channels

Person	User ID	DM Channel	Notes
Kent C. Dodds	`U030CU0CN`	`D030BJ3D1`	MEGA instructor, EpicWeb
Grzegorz Róg	`U03G1P81FBJ`	`D098ZQELPLM`	Slack Connect, MEGA producer
Matt Pocock	`U0211NP2ZN1`	(lookup needed)	Total TypeScript, AI Hero
John Lindquist	`U030CS0R0`	(lookup needed)	egghead cofounder, Script Kit

22 external Slack Connect DMs total. Notable external users discovered: Tony Holdstock-Brown, Antonio Erdeljac, Sean Grove, Dave Kiss, Charly Poly, Matthew Rathbone, Janelle Allen, Justin Gordon

Channel Taxonomy

729 channels total. Canonical ID→name mapping: ~/Vault/Resources/slack/channels.json (729 entries, pulled 2026-02-26).

Prefix-based auto-categorization:

Prefix	Category	Count (approx)	Description
`lc-*`	Launch Control	~50	Course launch channels
`cc-*`	Creator Channel	~200	1:1 with creators/instructors
`dd-*`	Ding Ding	~15	Revenue reporting (mostly noise)
`brain-*`	Brain	3	Team thinking/strategy spaces
`project-*`	Projects	~15	Active project channels
`*-chat`	Legacy	many	Legacy individual chats
`sp-*`	Sales/Partner	few	Sales partner channels
`pm-*`	Product Mgmt	few	Product management
`skill-*`	Skill	few	Skill Recordings ops
`egghead-*`	egghead Ops	several	Various egghead channels

Priority Channels (ADR-0131)

High (cc-/lc- with Contact materialization):

cc-matt-p (C0211NSK3TP) — Matt Pocock
cc-john (G70JH2Y7P) — John Lindquist
cc-ashley-hindle — active
cc-alex-hillman — active
epic-instructors (C06P7TD6VMM) — Private, 14 members. Kent, Artem, and other Epic Web instructors. Workshop app features, video pipeline, course-builder updates.
cc-kcd (G01NK427ZE2) — Private. Kent C. Dodds creator channel (NOT lc-just-javascript)
cc-artem-zakharchenko (C044J7QEDRA) — Private, 11 members. Artem's creator channel
lc-total-typescript (C03JWTULTN0) — Private, 10 members. Matt's course
lc-ai-hero (C07CURG8YB1) — Private, 9 members. Matt's AI platform
lc-course-builder (C06KP859BUM) — Private, 11 members. Course builder tool
lc-badass (C02PXV4BR61) — Private, 12 members. Badass Courses
lc-epic-web (C03QFFWHT7D) — Private, 11 members. Epic Web launch

Medium (project-/brain-/skill-*):

brain-john (C0A2ZA94M0V) — Public, 6 members. Strategy with John
brain-joel (C09LKT871PE) — Public, 8 members. Joel's strategy space
project-support-agent (C0ACP6SDN73) — Public, 8 members. Support agent project
project-gremlin (C0AE33HH9C3) — Public, 8 members. Gremlin project
skill-life (C04JPQS5ZUZ) — Private, 9 members. Skill Recordings ops

Low/noise (dd-/sp-/legacy):

dd-* — revenue signals, topic-only extraction
*-chat — legacy, rarely active

API Patterns

Search messages

SLACK_USER=$(secrets lease slack_user_token --ttl 1h)
curl -s "https://slack.com/api/search.messages?query=QUERY&count=20&sort=timestamp&sort_dir=desc" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SLACK_USER"

List DM channels

curl -s "https://slack.com/api/conversations.list?types=im&limit=500" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SLACK_USER"

Read DM history

curl -s "https://slack.com/api/conversations.history?channel=DM_CHANNEL_ID&limit=30" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SLACK_USER"

Download files

curl -s -L -o output.file \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SLACK_USER" \
  "URL_PRIVATE_DOWNLOAD"

Requires files:read scope on user token.

Send DM to Joel (bot token)

SLACK_BOT=$(secrets lease slack_bot_token --ttl 1h)
curl -s -X POST https://slack.com/api/chat.postMessage \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SLACK_BOT" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"channel":"U030BJ3CK","text":"message"}'

Upload file (3-step)

files.getUploadURLExternal → POST multipart → files.completeUploadExternal

Resolve external user (Slack Connect)

curl -s "https://slack.com/api/users.info?user=EXTERNAL_USER_ID" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SLACK_USER"

Backfill Pipeline

Inngest functions (deployed, registered):

slack-channel-backfill — per-channel paginated history → Typesense slack_messages
slack-backfill-batch — fan-out orchestrator for multiple channels
Events: channel/slack.backfill.requested, channel/slack.backfill.batch.requested
Flow control: concurrency 2, throttle 10/60s, 1.5s sleep between pages
First backfill: 15 channels, 60-day window, 245+ messages indexed

Privacy Boundary

Absolute rules:

JoelClaw NEVER posts in Slack channels (only Joel's DM)
JoelClaw NEVER responds to other users
JoelClaw NEVER surfaces channel content publicly
All intelligence is private context for Joel only
No Slack IDs, channel names, or workspace identifiers in public repos
This skill file is PRIVATE — lives at ~/.pi/agent/skills/egghead-slack/, NOT in joelclaw repo

Content shared in Slack is privileged by default:

Loom recordings, screenshots, files, and links shared in Slack channels or DMs are private unless Joel explicitly says otherwise
Do NOT auto-publish Looms or Slack-sourced content as discoveries, blog posts, or any public-facing content
Always ASK Joel before surfacing any Slack-originated content publicly
This applies to all channels — cc-, lc-, DMs, Slack Connect, everything

Related ADRs

ADR-0130: Slack Channel Integration (gateway handler)
ADR-0131: Unified Channel Intelligence Pipeline
ADR-0132: VIP DM Escalated Handling
Gateway channel: packages/gateway/src/channels/slack.ts

egghead-slack